Reversible slide and hose-protector.



PATENTED DEC. 3, 190?.

J. H. WILLIAMSON & W. O. MOORE; REVERSIBLE SLIDE AND HOSE PROTECTOR.

v APPLIOATION IILBD APR. 29,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. WILLIAMSON AND WILLIAM G. MOORE, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

REVERSIBLE SLIDE AND HOSE-PROTECTOR.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed April 29, 1907. Serial No. 370,943.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, -JOHN H. WILLIAM- SON and WILLIAM C. MOORE, citizens ofthe United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in a Reversible Slide and Hoserotector and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. l

The object of our invention is to provide a device to hold hose above contact with a pavement and out of the gutter when streets or alleys are being cleaned by flushing; that will retain the hose in direct line at a given distance from the curbing and that, if accidentally overturned or thrown out of its normal position, will in no wise entangle or dis arrange the hose or interrupt the flushing of the street.

We accomplish our object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a perspective showing the device open and t e hose therein; Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation thereof, and Fig. 4 is a perspective, with parts broken away, of a runner, a frame cross piece provided with a socket for a hose, and a guard to protect the device from abrasion and to prevent its stopping on its side if overturne Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views. v

A, A, are duplicate runners having morgspgs a a in their tops to enclave cross pieces O, O, are runners corresponding in form and size with runners A, A. These each have mortises c c to enclave the bottom edges of frame cross pieces D D, which pieces are rigidly fastened therein by-bolts or in any other suitable way. I

Hinges E E are attached to the outside of runner A and to the ends of frame pieces D D, thus permitting runners A, A, and their cross pieces B B, to, be raised and lowered as shown in Fig. 1.

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ends to the frame pieces and bent outward to a line outside the vertical of the sides of the protector a sufficient distance to prevent the sides of the protector contacting with or rubbing along the curbing of the sidewalk.

Said guards also render it impossible for the protector ever resting upon either of its sides, or if tipped on one side it will rest u on one of said guards and be almost instant y tilted to its normal position or to the opposite position with the top part turned underneath.

L L are staples in the frame pieces to which cables or chains M M are attachable for connecting together as many of the hose protectors as may be found desirable.

O O are wire screens in each of the two parts of the device to prevent the hose couplin sagging.

plurality of these protectors having been placed in line in a street to be flushed at a distance of, preferably, 10 or 12 feet apart, the top; formed by runners'A, A and cross pieces hose is then dropped into sockets H H of each of the devices and the top closed and fastened by said hasps and staples, thus holding the hosesecurely in the sockets. The protectors being connected by means of said cables or chains the line of devices with hose therein can be dragged forward or backward by horse or hand power to whatever point Said hose protector is preferably constructed of wood,'the runners being provided with metal shoes P P. But we reserve to ourselves the right to use any material and to make any changes merely mechanical. Without inventive ingenuity the runners ma be laced on rollers.

If wil be noticed that both ends of the protector are precisely alike and that it is B are raised, as shown in Fig. 1: the.

immaterial which end is forward and that if by any possibility one or more of the protectors should be overturned it is also immaterial as the hose will still be in place, the top runners being precisely like those at the bottom. In fact, when closed and in use, the device has neither front nor back, top nor bottom, either end serving as front and either set of runners serving as the bottom.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a reversible slide and hose protector duplicate runners provided with shoes, duplicate frame pieces at right angles with and rigidly fastened to said runners and provided with sockets to receive a hose, duplicate runners also provided with shoes and cross pieces thereon hinged to the ends of said frame pieces, screens on each of said duplicate sets of runners between their respective frame and cross pieces, side guards secured to the ends of the frame pieces, fastenings on corresponding ends of the frame and cross pieces to lock the device, staples in the outer sides of said frame pieces and cables to engage therewith, substantially as set forth and shown.

2. In a reversible hose protector a lower part comprising duplicate runners having corresponding ends, duplicate frame pieces thereon at right angles therewith provided with duplicate sockets to receive a hose, an upper part hinged to said lower part and comprising dupllcate runners in reverse position to the first named runners, cross pieces at right angles with and connecting the upper runners, and hasps on one of said upper runners and staples in the ends of the frame pieces by which to lock the parts and retain the hose in position, substantially as de scribed and shown.

In testimony whereof, we afliX our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. l/VILLIAMSON.

WILLIAM C. MOORE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES J SHERMAN, JOHN W. TAPELEY. 

